The EDFP is the first educational program specifically dedicated to capacity building in the area of digital finance. The program provides executive training to equip participants with

• analytical tools to grasp new market developments in digital finance,
• an exposition of the fundamental policy choices and trade-offs underpinning landmark legislative initiatives, and
• in-depth understanding of the upcoming (and pre-existing) regulatory framework governing digital finance, including all key areas of policy focus at the EU and international standard-setter level.

In its first training cycle, from October 2022 to June 2023, the EDFP will provide education focussing on four key pillars:

• Digital assets: Bespoke courses on (i) Crypto assets and the practitioner’s perspective on MiCA, (ii) decentralised finance (DeFi), and (iii) central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
• AI: A ground-breaking course on the use of AI in the EU financial sector, and the outlook for regulation and supervision.
• Operational resilience and the DORA, covering the new EU-level oversight of critical third-party providers (CTPPs) of information and communication technology (ICT) services, including the so-called BigTechs.
• Data and the structure of the EU financial system: Two complementary courses on (i) the confluence of data and technology, including the role of BigTechs, as drivers for change in the structure of the EU financial system, and (ii) the merger of the data economy and the financial sector, covering concepts such as PSD3, open banking and open data.